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Venice, the Molo
BOUDIN, Louis Eugène (1824 - 1898)
[image: Venice, the Molo]
Date: 1895
Media: oil on canvas
Size: 33.5 x 57.0 cm
Acquired: 1952; Bequest; Gwendoline Davies
Accession Number: NMW A 2432
Collection: The Davies Sisters Collection
From a viewpoint on the Molo, this composition depicts shipping on the Giudecca Canal, the Dogana, Santa Maria della Salute, the mouth of the Grand Canal, the Giardinetti Reali and the façade of Sansovino's Zecca. During his visit to Venice, Boudin noticed how: '..a storm wraps everything in a grey and dull mist...the waters, which don't resemble those of the Mediterranean, are mostly green and do not differ from the waters of the Channel.' Gwendoline Davies purchased this work in Paris in 1912.
This work is currently on display:
Gallery 16
National Museum Cardiff, level 4
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Henry May on 29 June 2009, 09:15
Venice, the Molo by E Boudin
A very nice Boudin
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